{"id":49132,"date":"2024-12-14T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeals75.com\/blog\/49132"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:29:58","slug":"%e7%ac%ac-232-%e5%8d%b7%e5%ba%95%e7%89%87%ef%bc%9a%e4%b8%8d%e8%bc%95%e6%98%93%e7%9b%b8%e4%bf%a1%e7%9c%bc%e5%89%8d%e6%89%80%e8%a6%8b%e5%88%b0%e7%9a%84%e4%b8%80%e5%88%87%ef%bd%9cminolta-hi-matic-af-38mm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeals75.com\/en\/blog\/49132","title":{"rendered":"EP232: Don't Believe Everything You See \u2014 Minolta Hi-Matic AF 38mm f2.8 with Kodak Vision3 500T\/5219 (Remjet Removed)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRoll #232<\/p>\n

Film: Kodak Vision3 500T\/5219<\/a>, remjet removed (Cyberpunk 640T repackaged version)
\nDeveloped & scanned: Li-lai Photo, 2024\/9\/30
\nCamera: Minolta Hi-Matic AF 38mm f2.8<\/p>\n

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Strictly speaking, I'm a marketing professional. My interest and specialty happen to be web design.<\/p>\n

My first job out of university was at Edelman PR in 2010. The first task they gave me was media monitoring \u2014 flipping through newspapers and major websites, logging every mention of our clients, compiling it into a daily Excel report. Every morning, before anything else.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately \u2014 though in another sense, fortunately \u2014 I didn't make it past probation. My English wasn't strong enough, and my personality wasn't what the company needed. I left the PR industry and joined the Taiwan distributor of F-Secure for my second job, doing actual marketing work rather than pure PR.<\/p>\n

Almost every marketing role I've had since has involved a significant amount of market observation and evaluation \u2014 studying what consumers are thinking, what competitors are doing, and deciding what we should be doing ourselves. Over time, I went from someone who consumed other people's research to someone who produced it.<\/p>\n

The most obvious occupational hazard of working in marketing is that you find it hard to believe anything you see at face value. Everything has a motive behind it. In Taiwan's film market, the most common form of this is simple: when someone \u2014 a person or a store \u2014 is enthusiastically recommending a product, there's a good chance they happen to be selling it. Not a genuinely objective recommendation. The internet is flooded with this kind of insincere endorsement: whatever the seller needs to move today, they push. Whatever consumers see being pushed, they buy. The buying never stops, and there's always a justification for the next purchase.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to the film on this roll \u2014 Cyberpunk, a cinema film repackager from Taobao. I kept seeing influencers and stores raving about this brand online. \"Great quality, no light leaks, the best I've used, can replace Cinestill,\" that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

Out of curiosity, I bought a few rolls. They were... fine. Generic plastic cartridge, light leaks still present, price not particularly low. A marketing professional, outwitted by marketing.<\/p>\n

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\n#1
\nThe Minolta Hi-Matic AF 38mm f2.8 is awkward to use \u2014 there's no half-press focus lock. Instead, you press a separate focus lock button, which locks the focus at that distance until you fire the shutter. Similar in feeling to the mirror lock-up button on the Pentax 6x7 MLU: once you engage it, the only way out is to press the shutter.<\/p>\n

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\n#2
\nWorking on book content today \u2014 in the process of selecting photos.<\/p>\n

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\n#3
\nThere's a Q Burger near home that gets the latest issue of Business Weekly \u2014 we brought my son and had breakfast there, with him reading his own book while we read the magazine.<\/p>\n

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\n#4
\nI was coughing more than usual at the time and didn't want to disturb anyone at MOS Burger, so I worked from Q Burger \u2014 fewer people, less impact.<\/p>\n

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\n#5
\nThe volume of illegal real estate ads showing up on utility poles tells you exactly how much selling pressure is in the market right now.<\/p>\n

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\n#6
\nFinally finished selecting all 100 photos for the book.<\/p>\n

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\n#7
\nPassing by my old co-working space \u2014 Dotel Banqiao. Closed after COVID. It was a good place to work.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
\n#8
\nThat signature red halation from the Kodak Vision3 500T\/5219.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
\n#9
\nWaiting to pick someone up from work \u2014 shooting to pass the time.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
\n#10
\nPrevious frame was flash off, this one is flash blocked \u2014 one too bright, the other too dark.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
\n#11
\n\"Surviving in the cracks\" \u2014 I think this might be where that phrase was coined.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n#12
\nA traditional craft workshop with a striking sign \u2014 they make bells, drums, and incense burners for Taiwanese temples.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n#13
\nThe desk has been relatively tidy lately.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
\n#14
\nThe Minolta Hi-Matic AF's focus point sits noticeably low in the frame \u2014 whether that's a quirk of this particular unit or a design choice, I'm not sure. I was trying to photograph the station name display in the center; the camera locked onto the MRT barrier in the foreground.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
\n#15
\nTaking my son by MRT to his math class in Taipei City \u2014 the ride is long enough that I brought headphones so he could listen to a Podcast story on the way.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n#16
\nThe man on the right has a very eye-catching hairstyle. I read somewhere that the human eye instinctively moves to the area of highest contrast first \u2014 that checks out here.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
\n#17
\nExiting at Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall MRT Station \u2014 the sky had already turned that deep evening blue.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n#18
\nI rotate through MOS Burger locations \u2014 most often Xinzhuang and Tucheng, occasionally Banqiao, and once or twice Neihu.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n#19
\nCan't remember which intersection this was.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
\n#20
\nDrinking Sapporo tonight, which made me realize how much I actually prefer the taste of Asahi.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
\n#21
\nAnother case of the focus point sitting low \u2014 I was trying to photograph the McDonald's 1+1 promotion in the center of the frame; the camera locked onto the lamp post below it.<\/p>\n

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\n#22
\nWasting film.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n#23
\nTrying to catch a distant reflection in a mirror. Didn't work.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
\n#24
\nA shop with a very commanding name.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n#25
\nWhat's the name of this stir-fry place? From the sign layout, you could easily read it as \"Good Fierce\" \u2014 a visual hierarchy problem. If \"\u597d\u8fce\" were scaled up and \"\u751f\u731b\u5feb\u7092\" shrunk, the correct reading order would be immediately clear.<\/p>\n

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\n#26
\nWorking from Q Burger today. Coffee available means I can work.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n#27
\nAn inexplicable sidewalk-blocking device, positioned with remarkable confidence.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
\n#28
\nSir, there's nothing in the direction you're looking. \u2014 A tilted gaze just looks more natural. You wouldn't understand.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n#29
\nProof that I still ride a bicycle sometimes.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
\n#30
\nThe Minolta Hi-Matic AF 38mm f2.8 doesn't have a particularly sharp lens.<\/p>\n

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\n#31
\nA route I hadn't ridden before \u2014 felt good to explore something new.<\/p>\n

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That's the full roll \u2014 Minolta Hi-Matic AF 38mm f2.8 with Kodak Vision3 500T\/5219, remjet removed. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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